Your senator Ted Harvey recently introduced a bill that would take away thr rights of cities and counties to establish thier own rules on oil and gas drilling. Right now a well can be drilled as close as 300 feet from your house as long as the oil company has a lease with the property owner.
Not worried? You should be. Highlands sits on top of the Niobrara shale formation that is being drilled for fracking. Fracking is the proces where millions of gallons of water mixed with diesel fuel and a witches brew of toxic chemicals is pumped into the ground at high enough pressure to fracture the shale rock. If Harvey has his way no local power could stop the drilling or change the rules even if they decide to drill in your open spaces.
